Patents, generic drugs and the markets for antiretrovirals

Benjamin Coriat (), Jérôme Dumoulin (), Yves-Antoine Flori, Tony Barnett, Yves Souteyrand and Jean-Paul Moatti
Additional contact information
Jérôme Dumoulin: LEPII - Laboratoire d'Economie de la Production et de l'Intégration Internationale - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: In 1994, the Uruguay Round culminated by the creation of WTO which extends worldwhile patent protection for new products, including drugs. In 1996, an efficent Aids treatment was available in the world market : antiretroviral combined therapy. The coexistence of these two series of events is obviously coincidal, but has fueled intensive debates about their conflictual interaction. A focus is made on the growing tension between the dimension of the collective good of public health and profit-seeking by private firms involved in that domain. The TRIPS Agreement, part of WTO has generated new constraints to face to AIDS epidemic and other public health issues as well.Thailand and Brazil succeeded to manufacture generic drug for the benefit of domestic patients through many international obstacles. A special chapter is devoted to the prices : how are they determined ? how have the main protagosnists in this field been behaving? What can we expect in the future ?

Keywords: patent; generic drug; AIDS; price; drug; Thailand; Brazil; brevet; médicament générique; SIDA; traitement médical; prix; médicament; Thaïlande; Brésil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in Moatti J.P., Coriat B., Souteyrand Y., Barnett T., Dumoulin J., Flori Y.A. Economics of AIDS and access to HIV/AIDS care in developing countries : issues and challenges, Agence Nationale de Recherche sur le SIDA, pp.29-37, 2003, Sciences Sociales et SIDA

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00112027

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().